Three-time NHRA champ Larry Dixon walked away from this

When your dragster breaks in half and takes flight at 300 mph, it's a rough day at the office.

That half-dragster airborne in the image above? Larry Dixon, three-time NHRA top-fuel champion, is strapped into the cockpit. The front half of the car? It's still out of the frame.

Dixon's car lost the front end in spectacular fashion Saturday at the Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals in Gainesville, Florida. At the time of the failure, his dragster was traveling at around 300 mph.

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Then it reached for the sky. Literally:

As you saw, Dixon was conscious and moving around in the cockpit after that hard landing. Emergency crews were on him almost instantly, and he was cleared by them in short order after the crash.

Dixon, for his part, took all it in stride, telling the media in a post-race interview, "I've been through worse. Last time I did that I got a helicopter ride. So this one's definitely better."

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